I usually get the, "Little cold isn't it?" from those in the HD set. Which when there is snow on the ground and it is 20 degrees is a fair enough question. But does not mean I can't have a little fun......

I will generally point to my "bits" and say; "Didn't you hear them clang when I got off?"

"What kind of Harley is that?" (followed by; why didn't you get a harley?)
"Aren't you cold?"
"How much did it cost?"
"Finally getting warm enough to ride?" (I have to explain that i ride year round)

It seems like a most people around where i live decide what a bikes worth based on its price tag; actually they do that for everything...
Looking through some of the earlier posts, i find it kind of disheartening how many BMW riders are snobs, sure i love my bike but i like ALL bikes; if you have it, ride it. I'm not in the bushiness of bashing other bikers, unless their road manners are non-existent; but really they just scare me. Going down 95S through Richmond its pretty common for some guy on a busa or harley to fly past at 90mph, all of a sudden all the drivers around get super aggressive. :eek1 Its a battlefield out there... I cant tell if all of the surrounding traffic wants to catch up to said busa or harley or they just really want to kill someone. (because you know, going ten over most of the time just isn't fast ENOUGH.)

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And why is it that on 64 east or west that when it turns to 55 people actually speed up? Or the 295 to 64 east ramp that most treat it like they are exiting pit lane in an F1 car?

Sometimes its good to be the one speeding in front. On the way home from D2D last year, came around a corner and surprised a State Trooper, but he did get radar lock on the guy behind me going to same speed.

A bunch of us from ADV meet for breakfast every Saturday morning. 2 weeks ago the waitress said, "What kind of bikes are those, those aren't normal bikes." Last week it was 22°F with fine snow falling, the same waitress asked if it was possible to ride in weather this cold. So I pulled out my phone and showed her pictures of me riding on ice roads in Alaska this past november at much colder temps.

This next story is very slightly embellished:

I got a new Wolfman Expedition Dry Duffel bag for my birthday in Feb. I decided to test it out the next day during a thunderstorm. I decided to swing by McDonalds to pick up supper before going home. After I ordered my food (to go with a drink) I was standing in the lobby with my rain gear dripping on the floor and a guy walks up to me sporting a white dress shirt, dark slacks, and a grey sweater vest with a Harley Davidson logo embroidered on it. He asked me if I was riding a bike in this weather and I said yes. He then explains that he is a Harley rider and he would never dream of riding in weather like this. He then says "You must be a real biker", looks out the window at my Honda XR650L and continues, "what is that a BMW?" I said no and that I was a starving artist and couldn't afford one it's a Honda. When he left I noticed the tag on his Mercedes said "POSER".

Iv'e had several people ask me the same ?, usually i'm in some small town at the end of a long day securing whatever good beer i can find, it's happened maybe 3 times....i wear a darien hi viz jacket...the comment/question is always something like..."where's the fire" i guess i look like a 1st responder....

Iv'e had several people ask me the same ?, usually i'm in some small town at the end of a long day securing whatever good beer i can find, it's happened maybe 3 times....i wear a darien hi viz jacket...the comment/question is always something like..."where's the fire" i guess i look like a 1st responder....

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I found the very same in every small town I've ever stopped with my high-vis cold-weather jacket.

I'll tell ya, while for city use I still appreciate the jacket, the next time I go touring small-towns in Florida, or for an extended trip through states, I will be buying a grey jacket (maybe even the same make/model)... because I do find it a bit embarrassing when out on two-lane roads that have so little traffic crossing them that it wouldn't make much of a difference.

The only benefit I've found from it, out and away from suburbia, is that when I and an 8 or 10 year old showed up at the 7-11's men's room door at the same time, he let me go in first because he thought I was a fireman.